Commission Journal d'Île-de-France April 20-21, 2024 EDMP, 8 impasse
Crozatier, Paris 12th (metro Gare de Lyon or Reuilly-Diderot)
Program
SATURDAY
Debate on the social impact of the Olympics: 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Break: 5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Critique of Alternating Current 339: 5:15 p.m.-7 p.m.
Aperitif-meal: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Wishes and proposals for Courant Alternatif 341: 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sunday morning
Wishes and proposals continuation and end: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Introductory text to the debate
Every four years, a city is drawn to host the nationalist High Mass of
capitalist sport: the Olympic Games (OG). This company, celebrated with
great media support (Macron's "Sports Nation") seeks to mobilize the
whole of society, from projects with students in nursery schools to
volunteers responsible for providing foreign tourists with a pleasant
time in the quasi-militarized "fan zones", from begging to have the
Olympic flame pass through many cities in France to promises to build
sports infrastructures which we have already seen are rarely profitable
for local populations in the long run. term.
The Olympic Games have distinguished themselves wherever they have been
through pharaonic costs, a militarization of public space and the
experimentation with surveillance technologies that States struggled to
impose, a lasting state of police and social exception (restriction of
movement in the "red zones", desired suspension of the right to strike),
a mobilization of a servile "volunteer" workforce very much in line with
the precariousness of wage employment, an accelerated gentrification in
working-class neighborhoods, with great reinforcements of expulsions of
squats and beatings of migrants, the acceleration of urban projects
(Grand Paris) taking advantage of the Olympic consensus... Capitalist
normality but "faster, higher, stronger" (motto of the Olympics). The
Olympics therefore constitute a tremendous opportunity for the
capitalist class to strengthen its profits and its domination with less
protest.
In Île-de-France, and particularly in Seine-Saint-Denis, the heart of
the Olympic Games, the pill is not easy to pass to all the inhabitants,
especially when part of the population mobilizes against the
dilapidation programmed by successive budget cuts for schools and hospitals.
We would like to address several questions related to the impacts of the
Olympic Games:
* even if the prohibitive price of tickets has largely dissipated the
idea of "popular games", the enthusiasm for the sporting spectacle is
widely shared among those who do not suffer its direct impact. How can
we fight against the nationalist ideological regimentation that is
currently very popular, as we see with the Olympics and the SNU?
* the general mobilization of the workforce to ensure the holding of the
Olympic Games ("France Travail" training in security with strong
incentives, recruitment of young volunteers) in a context of successive
reforms of the RSA, unemployment insurance, initial training and
continuing training, contributes to the general dynamic of
precariousness of the workforce through the contractual vagueness
between salaried employment and free work. How can we build links to
organize resistance on these issues?
* the importance of holding the Olympic Games without a hitch for those
in power. Is there still a window of opportunity open for workers and
all those who fight against capitalist land development projects
(Greater Paris)?
Contact: oclidf@riseup.net
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4136
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Crozatier, Paris 12th (metro Gare de Lyon or Reuilly-Diderot)
Program
SATURDAY
Debate on the social impact of the Olympics: 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Break: 5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Critique of Alternating Current 339: 5:15 p.m.-7 p.m.
Aperitif-meal: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Wishes and proposals for Courant Alternatif 341: 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sunday morning
Wishes and proposals continuation and end: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Introductory text to the debate
Every four years, a city is drawn to host the nationalist High Mass of
capitalist sport: the Olympic Games (OG). This company, celebrated with
great media support (Macron's "Sports Nation") seeks to mobilize the
whole of society, from projects with students in nursery schools to
volunteers responsible for providing foreign tourists with a pleasant
time in the quasi-militarized "fan zones", from begging to have the
Olympic flame pass through many cities in France to promises to build
sports infrastructures which we have already seen are rarely profitable
for local populations in the long run. term.
The Olympic Games have distinguished themselves wherever they have been
through pharaonic costs, a militarization of public space and the
experimentation with surveillance technologies that States struggled to
impose, a lasting state of police and social exception (restriction of
movement in the "red zones", desired suspension of the right to strike),
a mobilization of a servile "volunteer" workforce very much in line with
the precariousness of wage employment, an accelerated gentrification in
working-class neighborhoods, with great reinforcements of expulsions of
squats and beatings of migrants, the acceleration of urban projects
(Grand Paris) taking advantage of the Olympic consensus... Capitalist
normality but "faster, higher, stronger" (motto of the Olympics). The
Olympics therefore constitute a tremendous opportunity for the
capitalist class to strengthen its profits and its domination with less
protest.
In Île-de-France, and particularly in Seine-Saint-Denis, the heart of
the Olympic Games, the pill is not easy to pass to all the inhabitants,
especially when part of the population mobilizes against the
dilapidation programmed by successive budget cuts for schools and hospitals.
We would like to address several questions related to the impacts of the
Olympic Games:
* even if the prohibitive price of tickets has largely dissipated the
idea of "popular games", the enthusiasm for the sporting spectacle is
widely shared among those who do not suffer its direct impact. How can
we fight against the nationalist ideological regimentation that is
currently very popular, as we see with the Olympics and the SNU?
* the general mobilization of the workforce to ensure the holding of the
Olympic Games ("France Travail" training in security with strong
incentives, recruitment of young volunteers) in a context of successive
reforms of the RSA, unemployment insurance, initial training and
continuing training, contributes to the general dynamic of
precariousness of the workforce through the contractual vagueness
between salaried employment and free work. How can we build links to
organize resistance on these issues?
* the importance of holding the Olympic Games without a hitch for those
in power. Is there still a window of opportunity open for workers and
all those who fight against capitalist land development projects
(Greater Paris)?
Contact: oclidf@riseup.net
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4136
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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